PAY-OUT TO AUSTRALIAN WATERSIDERS
SYDNEY, Apl. 8. Statistics compiled from returns from the Central Pay Office covering all ports show that Australian wharf labourers were paid £A5.104,805 in wages for the six months ended December 31, 1948. The average weekly earnings was £lO 9s 8d for 35.15 hours' work. The highest paid port was Lucinda Point in the North Queensland sugar area, where the average earnings was £23 19s 5d a week.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 3
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